Posts by jgordon@appdot.net
(DIR) Post #AVO4jwWhkgY90wWMW8 by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-06T18:57:17Z
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@jeffcliff The vaccines have worked very well and, surprisingly, continue to be effective with minor tweaks.But my question was about natural selection. There really is a CDC/WHO consensus that the dominant viral strains cause less damage that the original even among immune naive. The question is about why that happened.
(DIR) Post #AVO52Ddcs0ILIVTO6a by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-06T19:00:19Z
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@jeffcliff Did they say what the adaptive advantage of losing ORF8 was? How did it benefit the virus?
(DIR) Post #AVOA3ZOVxwJ2pkrtcO by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-06T20:01:55Z
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@jeffcliff That's an interesting example, that the virus would do better to replicate faster than to "invest" more in immune evasion.
(DIR) Post #AVOByJQs5IYxmyajOS by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-06T20:24:51Z
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@jeffcliff It’s the kind of example I was wondering about. If immune evasion isn’t working (vaccine, past exposure) then try to replicate fast to spread fast … but that can be a dead end too. I hope we will see some good academic pubs on the viral evolution.
(DIR) Post #AVQuF2oRuitbSxKQ1A by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-08T03:50:14Z
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@lauren I’d forgotten.
(DIR) Post #AVUwkctfGVhnSl5GVs by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-10T02:37:06Z
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@lauren That was fast.
(DIR) Post #AVWcrEljlEsltLAdto by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-10T22:04:00Z
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@Jbat Google Apps account?
(DIR) Post #AVcp7h94OI1cvmSSMy by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-13T21:49:11Z
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@lauren Apple same.
(DIR) Post #AVnCvSrm8WgiyImojo by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-18T22:03:14Z
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@lauren The right is more angry at capitalism than the left. Has that ever happened before?
(DIR) Post #AVnUhvMdBUvqTaubT6 by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-19T01:22:24Z
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@lauren Bipartisan perhaps but nobody does anger like the reds.
(DIR) Post #AVnUv0Im8YjJYULTYO by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-19T01:24:51Z
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@lauren Trump is getting more senile, and he’s astoundingly ignorant, but he’s not really stupid. DeSantis is off his rocker.
(DIR) Post #AW25JlNgnjNE0dW2Mq by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-26T02:00:30Z
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@Polychrome I don't think print scanners have changed significantly in 20 years. Just USB versions. They basically got as good as they needed to be long ago.What has changed is they are rarely used now.Negative scanners similar story.
(DIR) Post #AW27GT64Wa8wLEpdwm by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-26T02:31:09Z
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@Polychrome Facebook marketplace, ask friends, etc. Somebody might have one in a closet you can use.
(DIR) Post #AW7zS0pHpJoTS3jZ3o by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-28T22:41:07Z
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@lauren So radically different from my experience. I just asked ChatGPT 4 about unclogging a drain and got a quality list including options I'd forgotten.
(DIR) Post #AW82GgXLDoSHCad9fc by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-28T23:12:38Z
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@lauren I don't know where it got material it shared. I did not visit any sites other than ChatGPT. ChatGPT does not indicate sources.
(DIR) Post #AW8L1oBoNw6tipBE2q by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-29T02:42:56Z
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@lauren @privacat I do know that.
(DIR) Post #AW8LTk9D0T9VIJHbRw by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-05-29T02:48:01Z
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@lauren Hi Lauren. I know that of course. It’s possible for two things to be true:1. LLMs are astounding technology that many find very useful (I realize you do not)2. Many believe the use of public web data to train LLMs is a form of IP theft.
(DIR) Post #AWwixvPAPebYHTxogq by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-06-22T03:17:29Z
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@cstross Wouldn’t space traveling aliens most likely be AIs?
(DIR) Post #AWzrlHo7IA2f3eYtWK by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-06-23T22:28:57Z
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@clive Great essay! I saved a copy. I’ve never bikepacked but when helmets were novel I did a bit of bike touring. (Granted, bikepacking is a cooler term)
(DIR) Post #AXQHDdRK5rUYZiUEvA by jgordon@appdot.net
2023-07-06T16:17:21Z
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@john @futurebird I wouldn’t say unnecessary… it’s fun to watch Threads evolve at this early time. I hope we see federation happen, but it may be months yet.